'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada. Stacey D'Erasmo balladcanadacorner Change image and share on social
You can conclude from the glossy surfaces of 'The L Word' that L stands for latte or Lexus and stop there. Or you can notice that in some of its less flashy moments, the show has staked a claim on Large - as in a larger, denser, more ambivalent imaginary world, populated by imperfect and riveting citizens of all sexual stripes. Stacey D'Erasmo ambivalentcitizenclaim share on social
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had. Stacey D'Erasmo afootaggrandizementbook share on social
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church. Stacey D'Erasmo catholicchurchfamily Change image and share on social
There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less. Stacey D'Erasmo cellclockcomputer Change image and share on social
I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen. Stacey D'Erasmo citizendevilgeneral Change image and share on social
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant. Stacey D'Erasmo bindcrowndark Change image and share on social
One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties. Stacey D'Erasmo affectionateculturecuriosity Change image and share on social
In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman's decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn't as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today. Stacey D'Erasmo childcommonlydecision Change image and share on social
Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, 'Anywhere but Here,' 'The Lost Father' and 'A Regular Guy,' Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently. Stacey D'Erasmo bondchilddifferently share on social